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ROTTEN CUSTOM

California gold. Pennsylvania crude. Florida sunshine. These thieves pilfer from right under our noses, hustle the stuff back to the tundra, bury it like frickin’ chipmonks saving up nuts for the winter, then all winter long they swill their screw-cap wine, spillin‘ it on their overalls, laughin‘ this hideous laugh that.........well, you’ve seen the depravity in the movies. It just ain’t right.

B.J. SAYS IT CAME FROM OUT WEST. BARRIS CAR FOR SURE. PATINA. 3 COATS OF SAME PAINT.

TREE WORKS STOCK BOX/FLATHEAD WITH PARTS

THIS IS A NICE CAR, YOU THIEVIN’............

PUBLISHING BIDNESS

A friend heard at CHRR that Hop Up was going monthly in 2001. No flockin’ way.

We are, however, already working on HU 2002 (VIII) and we’re planning on doing some specials from time to time. First one will be available in June. No leaks yet.

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"....you ain’t so big, you jus’ tall.....tha’s all." Jimmy Reed

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T 'n' A

LAKES SHOT IS PRE-WAR

3W

The ride to Mr. Taco was cruisy; no burnouts, kind of lackadaisical, easy shiftin’, rod-chattin’ like you were probably doing the same day, but when you get in a car you’ve never been in......it is like you were 14 and the older kid finally gave you a ride. It’s neat. Good thoughts swirl around in your head while you look at the interior features and you kinda blank out.............

Oh, we heard what Lance was saying and all, but what we remember is the look over the hood. You don’t just look out at the road. You look OVER THE HOOD and the four rows of E.V. louvers draw the eye over the stock rad cap and bezel, and you appreciate the stock stainless bar runnin’ down the middle of the thing and you wonder if it’s DP 90 or that tractor paint they’re talkin’ about and then you remember what’s UNDER those two pieces of hood , and you wonder if you ever rode in a car with a hemi and a ‘39 (or so) box, and you know that even though we always say there is nothing new under the Hop Up Sun........this was a first. This was new. And this was plenty O-frickin’-K.

Along with Biscayne interior, cloth insulated wires, BBP aesthetic (Black on Black in Primer), there are about no sacrifices to pragmatism except the Vega box - and that’s what we do, too, so, say 20 Hail Marys and spin a do-nut.

This is another example of Hop Up Iron that you will see in the magazines called, "The new trend....". Uh-huh.

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Know what feels good? A radio that has to warm up!
"Hey! What’s wrong with this thing?.......Oh........."

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"WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST ..........GET ALONG?"